Rec.sport.soccer Player of the Year 1995

The vote for the fourth annual REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR vote
is over. 31 days of voting have passed and 76 votes were processed.
The contents of this article:
Distribution of this post
Results
Remarks of the RSSSF president
Names of Voters
Demographic analysis (split into two parts)
A. Country of Origin
B. Country of today (i.e. from where the letters were sent)
Previous Winner(s):
1992: MARCO VAN BASTEN, Milan AC, The Netherlands
1993: ROBERTO BAGGIO, Juventus FC, Italy
1994: ROMARIO, Flamengo, Brazil

DISTRIBUTION LIST FOR REC.SPORT.SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR
The USENET newsgroup Rec.Sport.Soccer
The WINNER of the Vote for this Year (1995)
Magazines:
France Football
L'Equipe
World Soccer
Guerin Sportivo
Kicker
Voetbal International
Sport und Toto
Soccer International (US)
Soccer America

REMARKS OF THE RSSSF PRESIDENT
With no international tournament in the main voting areas (the US and
Europe), club football was always going to be the decisive factor in
the vote, and Weah's fourth crown for 1995 (after European, African,
and World player of the year) comes as no surprise, given his fine
performances for both PSG and Milan in league and Europe. Paolo
Maldini proves himself yet again as the most consistent player of
our age, after third place in 1994. Apart from that, Ajax players
are well-represented in the higher echelons of the vote, and South
American players are conspicuously missing, only Fiorentina's Batistuta
making it into the top-10. Surely a result of the as yet unbalanced
distribution of the internet.
While the final margin shows wide support for Weah, the distribution
of actual first places shows that this year was a hard one to choose;
a kind of post-World Cup-depression that many of the 1994 stars suffered
from might be a reason for this - the low ranking for 4 out of the top-5
of last year (Romário, Stoitchkov, Baggio and Hagi) giving ample proof.
Maldini's ranking is all the more recommendable, and if ever a defender
is to win a competition like this, he's the most likely candidate at
the moment.
Cheers,
Karel Stokkermans